Common Practice vs Standards (was: Re: [thelist] www prefix is it necessary?)
Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au
Mon Jan 24 21:52:33 CST 2005
Rich Points wrote:
> Howdy,
> I try to avoid using the www prefix when witting and talking about
> URL's. As far as I know all urls will work without the www.
> My question is why is this prefix used if it's not necessary?
>
> R
>
This raises an interesting issue. Should the shorthand become the norm?
I have found the IE starts to remove the trailing '/' on urls that are
stored in the histroy ("http://www.sitename.com/" becomes
"http://www.sitename.com"). This, along with other people following the
same pattern, has resulted in more users making this a habit.
At what point does common practice over-rule standards?
Because of the conflict, I have found that Apache no longer has a common
variable that allows you to identify your site without turning off
UseCanonicalName. The result being that I had to configure my own
variable :(
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Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au
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